Ottawa, ON – Dressage Canada’s Senior High Performance Committee is pleased to announce the 2010 Dressage Short and Long Lists. The horse/rider combinations were selected based on criteria that considered 2009 competition results. The following horse/rider combinations have been identified as official members of the 2010 Dressage Canada Short List A Listing Criteria – Rider – […]

Ottawa, ON – The Jump Canada High Performance Committee is pleased to announce the 2010 Canadian Show Jumping Team Short List. Based on the 2010 Short List Criteria, the first four athletes named to the Canadian Show Jumping Team represented Canada as members of the 2009 Spruce Meadows “Masters” Nations’ Cup Team.  The fifth athlete […]

Ottawa, ON – Cheryl Meisner of Blandford, NS, and Paganini, John Risley’s 13-year-old Dutch Warmblood stallion (Havidoff x Statuar), will also represent Canada at the $145,000 Exquis World Dressage Masters, scheduled for February 4–6, 2010 at the Palm Beach International Equestrian Center, in Wellington, FL, USA.  The pair, who had a very successful 2009 competition […]

Ottawa, ON – Canadian Olympians Ashley Holzer of Toronto, ON, and Belinda Trussell of Stouffville, ON, will represent Canada at the at the $145,000 Exquis World Dressage Masters, to be held February 4–6, 2010 at the Palm Beach International Equestrian Center, in Wellington, FL, USA. Holzer and Trussell were selected to represent Canada based on […]

Lausanne, SUI – The FEI today launched a new website dedicated to its ongoing Clean Sport Campaign. The website’s address is: www.feicleansport.org   The website contains information about the new regulations that the FEI is implementing this year to combat doping in equestrian sports. The rule changes and other components of the Clean Sport Campaign were approved […]

Malmö, Sweden – A new worldwide Eventing Risk Management Policy and Action Plan aimed at reducing cross-country horse falls was launched at the third annual FEI Safety meeting in Malmö, Sweden. Based on a six-year statistical study of the sport, the Action Plan will be a functional and reliable system that will be used to monitor […]

Palgrave, Ontario – Cornerstone will host the CDI3* Spring Into Dressage competition from June 4 to 6, 2010, in addition to two other national gold dressage competitions, the Cornerstone Summer Festival from July 16-18 and the Cornerstone Summer Classic from August 20-22. Cornerstone’s annual hunter/jumper competition will be held June 23-27. All four equestrian competitions will […]

Ottawa, ON – Eleonore Elstone, Ashley Gowanlock, Tara Kowalski, and Jennifer McKenzie achieved a second place team finish for Canada at the Saddleworld International Para-Dressage CPEDI3* held December 10–13, 2009 in Werribee, Australia.   Paralympian Jennifer McKenzie of Maple Ridge, BC, achieved first place finishes aboard Sunbury Lodge Voodoo (owned by Jami Hurley) in the […]

Ottawa, ON – Georgia Young of Calgary, AB, and Amanda Harris of Aurora, ON, represented Canada at the 2009 FEI Children’s Jumping Final held December 11-18 at the Abu Dhabi Equestrian Club in Abu Dhabi, UAE. The FEI International Jumping Children’s Final is for show jumping competitors aged 12 to 14.  Each country is represented by […]

Wellington, FL – Canada’s Nicole Shinton successfully debuted her new mount, Wallenstein, at the Wellington Classic Dressage Challenge I held from January 9-10 at the Jim Brandon Equestrian Center in Wellington, FL. Shinton of Uxbridge, ON, purchased Wallenstein, an 11-year-old Swedish Warmblood by Warsteiner, this past fall in Denmark. Although the leggy chestnut gelding stands a […]